Volume 182, Issue 4 | The Medical Journal of Australia

From the editor’s desk

The Nobel Prize and mainstream medicine

Martin B Van Der Weyden

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In This Issue

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Editorials

Malaria chemoprophylaxis: in war and peace

James S McCarthy

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Screening for venous thrombosis by ultrasonography before hospital discharge after major joint surgery

Alexander S Gallus

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Postcard from the UK

Rural health turned upside-down

Konrad Jamrozik, David P Weller and Richard F Heller

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Research

The prevalence of venous thromboembolism after hip and knee replacement surgery

Richard F O’Reilly, Ian A Burgess and Bernard Zicat

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Quality of stroke care within a hospital: effects of a mobile stroke service

Anneke van der Walt, Amanda K Gilligan, Amy G Brodtmann, Dominique A Cadilhac, Dora C Pearce and Geoffrey A Donnan

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Public health

Notifications of imported malaria in Western Australia, 1990–2001: incidence, associated factors and chemoprophylaxis

Donnetta M Charles, Julie Hart, Wendy A Davis, Timothy M E Davis, Eleanor Sullivan and Gary K Dowse

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Mefloquine and doxycycline malaria prophylaxis in Australian soldiers in East Timor

Scott J Kitchener, Peter E Nasveld, Robin M Gregory and Michael D Edstein

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Clinical update

Clinical experience with the first combined positron emission tomography/computed tomography scanner in Australia

W F Eddie Lau, David S Binns, Robert E Ware, Shakher Ramdave, Alexander G Pitman and Rodney J Hicks

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For debate

Postgraduate medical education: rethinking and integrating a complex landscape

S Bruce Dowton, Marie-Louise Stokes, Evan J Rawstron, Philip R Pogson and Mark A Brown

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New Drugs, Old Drugs

Artemisinin-based combination therapies for uncomplicated malaria

Timothy M E Davis, Harin A Karunajeewa and Kenneth F Ilett

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Notable cases

Chronic falciparum malaria causing massive splenomegaly 9 years after leaving an endemic area

Benjamin P Howden, Gautam Vaddadi, M Lindsay Grayson and Joseph Manitta

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MJA Practice Essentials – Paediatrics

4. Bedwetting and toileting problems in children

Patrina H Y Caldwell, Elisabeth Hodson, Jonathan C Craig and Denise Edgar

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Matters arising

Withdraw all COX-2-selective drugs

Peter R Mansfield, Agnés I Vitry and James M Wright

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COX-2 selectivity varies across class

Leslie G Cleland and Michael J James

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Possible genetic predisposition to cardiac effects

Hari Manev and Radmila M Manev

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Paracetamol should be first-line therapy in osteoarthritis

Richard O Day and Garry G Graham

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Cardiovascular safety of rofecoxib (Vioxx): lessons learned and unanswered questions

Paul Langton, Graeme Hankey and John Eikelboom

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Letters

Acute presentation of childhood hypothyroidism

Ursula Bayliss, Christopher Cowell, James Hong, Veronica Wiley and Bridget Wicken

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Snapshot

DIY pincer nail repair — brace yourself!

Alex Chamberlain, Annika Smith and Adrian Mar

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Obituary

Aretas William Overton (“Bill”) Young MBE, MB BS, DPH

Judith A Y Straton

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Book review

Diabetes a personal view

Duncan J Topliss

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Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory